Check-protector.



No. 657,475. Patented Sept. 4, I900.

G. C.'BAKER.

CHECK PROTECTOR.

. [Applimtion filed Sept. 39, 1899.) (No Mode I.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I.

WITNESSES VENTOH A TTOHNE YJ No. 657,475. Patented Sept. 4, I900.

C. C'. BAKER.

CHECK PROTECTOR.

(Application filed Sept. 29, 1899.) L (No Model.) 2 Sha etsSheet 2.

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WITNESSES uro A TTOHNE m UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE COMSTOCK BAKER, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

CHECK-PROTECTOR. V

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,475, dated September 4, 1900.

Application filed September 29, 1899. Serial No. 732,060. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE COMSTOCK BAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Proteo tors, of which the following isa full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to check-protectors, and has particular relation to an improved device by which the numbers representing the amount of the check will be permanently indicated in the paper.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and improved device of this character which will be very inexpensive and especially adapted for convenient use and for advertising purposes.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the sep arate parts of my improvement are designated by the same letters of reference in each of the views, and in which- Figure l is a face view of a device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a corresponding view illustratinga slight modification; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a face view illustrating a further modification, and Fig. 6 is an edge view of the construction shown in Fig. 5.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, 0; and b designate, respectively, two sheets or plates formed of metal or other suitable material and providedwith a set of stencil perforations, as at 0, representing figures and other devices such as are appropriately used in marking checks. The plates are hinged or connected together at their top edge, as at d, in any suitable or adapted manner, and in the opposite side edges are formed a series of notches or indentations e, relatively arranged on corresponding transverse planes and extending in a vertical series with respect to the stencil-perforations 0, whereby saidnotches or indentations serve as guides in the adjustment of the check with relation to said stencil-perforations.

ried outwith a rapid movement working the pin back and forth until the paper of the check is destroyed within the outlines of the stencil figures. The check can then be removed and readjusted in position and subsequent stencil figures punched in the same manner, as desired. I

In ordinary practice the stencil-perforations 0 may be arranged to occupy substantially the whole area of the sheet or plate, said stencil -perforations being arranged in series on cross-lines extending one above the other, as shown in Fig. l of the drawings.

In Fig. 2 I have illustrated a slight modification, in which the stencil perforations c' are arranged at the lower portion of the plate, leaving a free space at the top portion, as at 8, upon which suitable advertisements may be printed. This construction, as illustrated in Fig. 2, is also adapted for punching the check- "paper at either its top or bottom, the top space just mentioned serving to enable the body of the check to be inserted up between the plates a and b, so that its lower edge portion will come Within the line of the first row of stencil perforations.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I have illustrated a further modification, inwhich a paper-cutting blade 10 projects from one of the body sheets or plates of the device. This blade may be secured to its carrying sheet or plate or it may be an integral part thereof, and in use as a paper-cutter the plates at and b, constituting the body of the device, will serve as a handle. It will be understood, further, that in lieu of the blade 9 various articles or desk-tools may be embodied in or carried by my improved check-protecting device.

My invention, aside from its simplicity, inexpensiveness,and convenience and its adaptability foradvertising uses, isdesigned P 1" ticularlyrto insurea great measure ofsafiety; It is of course understood that the protection less.

similar paper and then pasting these figures in the corresponding holes in the ori;ginal check-paper. By the use of my invention the paper is partly destroyed, leaving no clean-cut edges, and consequently it is not feasible toffill in the figures, it being further I apparent that the use of "pasted figures "inany relation with respect to my invention would be an impossibility.

7 Having :fully described my invention,

claim as new Patentfor the purpose set forth. 2. A-check-protectorof the class described,

comprising two superposed plates or wmembers between which theoheck isiinsert'ed, and 5 each of said members being provided wi thf registering perforations formed to represent;

denominational symbols, and through which 1 and through a portion of the checkthereb er g Witnesses:

' GUERNSEY READ JEWETT,

MICHAEL .H. QUIRK.

tween, a pointed instrument operates'to destroy portionsof said check,substantia1ly:as and for the purpose set forth.

tially'as and for the purpose set forth.

comprising two superposed plates or members between which the check is inserted, and providedv with registering stencil openings formed to simulate denominational symbols, rand providedet their-edges with guides havsubstantialiyas andforthe purpose set forth.

' '5. A check-protector of the class described, 3 comprising twop la-tes crime m'ibers hinged toregisteri'ng stencil-openings which simulate fdenominational sym'bols, said symbols being 1. A check-:protectonof the class described, comprising two superposed plates or amourhere between which thecheckis inserted ,said 1 members being provided with registering} stencil-perforations formed to'represent denominational symbols, substantially as and ;arranged in rows transversely of said plates per, members, and notches or indentations 1 formed in theedges of 316 plates with a predeterminedarrangement relative tosaid rows of symbols'mherebya check irnserted' between said plates or members may; be guided with I j relationtossaid symbols,substantially as and 3 tor the purpose set forth.

. In :testrmony that l' clalm tne toregoing as 1 my invention I havesigned my name, i-n'pres- "ence of the subseribing witnesses, this2'7th day :of September, 1189 9.

EORGE oonsroolr BAKER.

- 4. -Acheck-protector-ofthe class described,

ing a predetermined relation to-said symbols,

,gether mt .an edge :of each and :provided with and desire to secure by Letters I 

